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Paul Féval, père

1816 - 1887

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Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857). He also penned the seminal vampire fiction novels Le Chevalier Ténèbre (1860), La Vampire (1865) and La Ville Vampire (1874) and wrote several celebrated novels about his native Brittany and Mont Saint-Michel such as La Fée des Grèves (1850). Féval's greatest claim to fame, however, is as one of the fathers of modern crime fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Féval, père is the 2,380th most popular writer (down from 2,149th in 2019), the 2,627th most popular biography from France (down from 2,399th in 2019) and the 327th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Paul Féval, père ranks 2,380 out of 7,302. Before him are Annie Proulx, Alexandre Exquemelin, Michel de Ghelderode, Xenophon of Ephesus, Heinrich Glarean, and Petrus Comestor. After him are Catherine Breillat, Isaeus, Philo of Byblos, Djuna Barnes, Hans Hellmut Kirst, and Tawfiq al-Hakim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Paul Féval, père ranks 22. Before him are William Gull, Gustav Freytag, Antoine Béchamp, Antoine François Marmontel, Rudolf Wolf, and Jan Arnošt Smoler. After him are Giovanni Morelli, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Charlotte Cushman, Paul Gervais, August Karl von Goeben, and Emanuel Leutze. Among people deceased in 1887, Paul Féval, père ranks 20. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Doc Holliday, Agostino Depretis, William A. Wheeler, Moritz Wagner, and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. After him are Anandi Gopal Joshi, Hans von Marées, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, J. C. Jacobsen, Hippolyte Bayard, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Féval, père ranks 2,627 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Dieudonné (1906), Christian Kramp (1760), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Antoine Pesne (1683), and Petrus Comestor (1100). After him are Michel Sogny (1947), Catherine Breillat (1948), Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), and Julie Delpy (1969).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Féval, père ranks 327. Before him are Walter of Châtillon (1135), Paul Du Chaillu (1835), Hervé Bazin (1911), Henri Meilhac (1831), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), and Petrus Comestor (1100). After him are Catherine Breillat (1948), André Frossard (1915), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886), Paul Adam (1862), Pascal Bruckner (1948), and Valery Larbaud (1881).

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